Personal injury litigation remains Andrew’s principal area of practice.  His experience spans the breadth of personal injury work and is evenly balanced between Claimant and Defendant work.  He regularly conducts CCMS, JSMs and trial and advisory work.  He is instructed on high value complex cases from the outset, advising on appropriate actions from an early stage and drafting schedules/counter schedules of loss.  In more recent years he has developed particular expertise in traumatic brain injury cases and spinal injuries.  He is regularly praised for his care and skill in client handling in difficult cases.

His experience with coronial work complements his expertise in fatal accident claims, often appearing for families at inquest in cases giving rise to a fatal accident claim.

Andrew has many years of experience in dealing with employers’ liability claims, including industrial disease claims.

Andrew’s clinical negligence work is predominantly claimant focused.  His work has included missed or delayed diagnoses cases, including cancer and stroke cases resulting in life changing conditions or death.  His experience from appearing in inquests in hospital death cases has resulted in a detailed understanding across a broad range of medical disciplines and the complexity of causation arguments that frequently arise in such cases.

Andrew is an experienced inquest advocate having represented a broad range of interested persons, including families, NHS health boards/trades, individual companies and professionals. He has considerable experience in dealing with hospital deaths, delayed diagnosis cases and deaths in custody. Andrew sits part time as an Assistant Coroner. He has considerable experience of dealing with Article 2 and Jury inquests.

Andrew has received regular instructions in cases of noise induced hearing loss and hand arm vibration syndrome claims. He is experienced in dealing with medico-legal issues arising in such cases and with cross-examining experts at trial.

Andrew has considerable experience of advising Claimant’s in cases involving allegations of dishonesty and fraud. He has experience of dealing with LVI cases and claims involving the use of surveillance and social media evidence. Andrew’s practice has primarily focused to date on Claimant instruction and advisory work in cases where allegations of fundamental dishonesty are raised. He is experienced in dealing with medical experts asked to comment on allegations of dishonesty, particularly where surveillance evidence is deployed in individual cases. In his earlier years of practice Andrew appeared in numerous criminal fraud cases both prosecuting and defending.

Andrew has experience in dealing with personal injury claims arising from accidents abroad, including road traffic accidents abroad, holiday sickness claims and claims involving the applicability of the Package Travel Regulations.

• Assistant Coroner (South Wales Central) 2023
• Wales & Chester Circuit
• Gray’s Inn
• Circuit Member of the Legal Wales Board

• Inns of Court School of Law, BVC – 1999 – 2000.
• Diploma in Law, University of Glamorgan – 1998 – 1999.
• B.Soc.Sci (Politics), University of Manchester – 1995 – 1998.

A keen rugby player in his younger years, Andrew now enjoys playing golf, skiing and watching sport.  An occasional runner in recent years to maintain some semblance of fitness.  Andrew has completed a number of half-marathons and marathons.